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And where outcomes not satisfying any of the formulas ϕi are least preferred. This way of specifying preferences is used (with minor modiﬁcations) in possibilistic logic [4] and ASO programs [3]. In our example, the expression x3 ∧ x4 > ¬x3 ∧ ¬x2 states that we prefer summer vacations (x3 ) where we drive by car (x4 ) to vacations in winter (¬x3 ) in Colorado (¬x2 ), with all other vacations being the least preferred. This linear speciﬁcation of preferred formulas is sometimes too restrictive.

Dm be the corresponding strict ordering of clusters of equivalent outcomes, with m ≤ 2n . If m = 1, a single-leaf tree (no decision nodes, just a box node) represents this preorder. This tree has depth 0 and so, the assertion holds. Let us assume then that m > 1, and let us deﬁne D = D1 ∪ . . ∪ D m/2 and D = D \ D . Let ϕD be a formula such that models of D are 1 We overload the symbols T and T by using them both for the order on the leaves of T and the corresponding preorder on the outcomes from CD(I).

Preferences represented by compact P-trees cannot in general be captured by ASO preferences without a signiﬁcant (in some cases, exponential) growth in the size of the representation. 28 X. Liu and M. Truszczynski ψ1 ψ2 ψ3 ψ5 ψ4 ψ6 Fig. 8. Trb when m = 6 However, any P-tree can be represented as a set of ranked ASO-rules, or an RASO-theory [3], aggregated by the Pareto method. We ﬁrst show how Pareto method is used to order outcomes with regard to a set of unranked ASO-rules. Let M and M be two outcomes.